Tom Brown's School Days

Hughes, Thomas

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819932604
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities. Notwithstanding the well-merited but late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at all acquainted with the family must feel that much has yet to be written and said before the British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands. Wherever the fleets and armies of England have won renown, there stalwart sons of the Browns have done yeomen's work. With the yew bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt- with the brown bill and pike under the brave Lord Willoughby- with culverin and demi-culverin against Spaniards and Dutchmen- with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, under Rodney and St

Table of contents

• TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS
• PART I.
• CHAPTER II—THE “VEAST.”
• CHAPTER III—SUNDRY WARS AND ALLIANCES.
• CHAPTER IV—THE STAGE COACH.
• CHAPTER V—RUGBY AND FOOTBALL.
• CHAPTER VI—AFTER THE MATCH.
• CHAPTER VII—SETTLING TO THE COLLAR.
• CHAPTER VIII—THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
• CHAPTER IX—A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
• PART II.
• CHAPTER I—HOW THE TIDE TURNED.
• CHAPTER II—THE NEW BOY.
• CHAPTER III—ARTHUR MAKES A FRIEND.
• CHAPTER IV—THE BIRD-FANCIERS.
• CHAPTER V—THE FIGHT:
• CHAPTER VI—FEVER IN THE SCHOOL.
• CHAPTER VII—HARRY EAST'S DILEMMAS AND DELIVERANCES.
• CHAPTER VIII—TOM BROWN'S LAST MATCH.
• CHAPTER IX—FINIS.
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